[rescue] OT: can a tape device be mounted?

[Steve Sandau]

I had had a similar thought a while back relating to mp3 files and a 8gb
8mm tape. )That would play for a while, eh?) I was going to use a
buffering program called "bag" that helped us buffer input from a
ncpfs-mounted Netware server when we backed it up to the 8mm drive on a
Linux box.

Sorry, but that's as far as I got. ;) I thought that something like dd
would read the tape, pipe the output to bag which would then pipe the
output to a command-line mp3 player....


George Adkins wrote:
> 
> I just had a thought, could a DLT Drive be conveniently mounted and used to
> store-retrieve large files directly?  i.e. without spooling them to hard disk?
> 
> The reason I ask, is the idea of storing digital video on them, much like the
> idea of the DAT tape...  (How many feature length MPEG movies could you store
> on a 30 or 40 gig DLT?)
> 
> ?
> 
> George
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